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Asian Politics
Interviews with scholars of Asian Politics about their new books
November 1, 2026
Make China Great Again
Rongbin Han is a Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, where he studies Chinese politics and the internet. Han’s latest boo…
October 30, 2026
Partners in Need, Partners Indeed?
What are Taiwan’s ties with the Baltic States? This episode puts Estonia in the spotlight and familiarizes listeners with key developments in Estonia-…
October 24, 2026
Radioactive Governance
The 2011 Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear disaster was the worst industrial nuclear catastrophe to hit Japan. It was a major event, rated at the highest sev…
October 19, 2026
Queer Resistance
Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi examines tr…
October 16, 2026
Tyrell Haberkorn In Conversation with Duncan McCargo
In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, Professor Tyrell Haberkorn discusses her new book, Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in…
October 15, 2026
Satirical Tibet
The podcast episode with with Timothy Thurston covers his book Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo U Washington Press, 2025). …
October 9, 2026
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (U Michigan Press, 2025) by Katherine L. Alexander explores how one late …
October 2, 2026
India, China, and Climate Change Governance
Can we expect leadership and responsibility from the Asian Global South in climate change governance? India, China, and Climate Change Governance: Lea…
September 30, 2026
Transient Becoming
How do individuals seek to become better persons in contemporary China? How do they navigate the complex demands of personal growth given the fragment…
September 30, 2026
Three Impeachments
Three Impeachments: Guo Xiu and the Kangxi Court (U Washington Press, 2024) by Kent Guy tells the story of a series of impeachments brought by the cen…
September 29, 2026
Smuggling Law
The Kurdish-populated Wan/Van Province is a major smuggling hub between Turkey and Iran. Kurdish smugglers cross this 180-mile-long land border, trans…
September 19, 2026
Writing Empire and Self
China’s early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties through the unified Sui, was…
September 14, 2026
Domesticating Brown
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Christopher B. Patterson, Professor of the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbi…
September 13, 2026
Be Water
During the eventful summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, the Be Water Revolution formed to resist the proposed extradition of fugitives to mainland China’s co…
September 8, 2026
Voices from North Korea
In this podcast, North Korean refugees who visited the University of Bradford share their harrowing experiences of life in North Korea, escape, and th…
September 1, 2026
In the Shadow of the Khmer Rouge
As a child, Lim Muy Lang grew up in a prosperous Sino-Khmer family in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. When the Khme…
August 31, 2026
Paul Chambers
In this episode of Talking Thai Politics, Dr Paul Chambers, talks about his new book, Praetorian Kingdom: A History of Military Ascendancy in Thailand…
August 28, 2026
The Political Outsider
Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. …
August 27, 2026
China's Aristocratic Age
The Springs-and-Autumns period is a strange period in Chinese history. Coming after the decline of the Zhou, and before the famous Warring States Peri…
August 16, 2026
Asianism and the Fall of Empire
Offering a new global perspective on modern Indian history, Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (University of California Press, …